Green-corn-husking machine.



No. 648,484. Patented may l. |900. J. A. cmsHnLM, n. P. scoTT a w. H. szLLs. GREEN COBNHUSKING MACHINE.

(Applicatinn led June 15, 1894.)

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No. 648,484. Patented may l, lso. J. A. cmsHoLM, n. P. -snow & w. H. saLLs. GREEN CURP! HUSKING MACHINE.

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GREEN BURN NUSKING MACHINE.

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Patented May l, |900. J. A. CHISHDLM, R. P. SCUTT &. W. H.SELLS.

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" UNITtaD STATES PATENT FFicE.

`JOHN A. CHISHOLM, OF OAKVILLE, CANADA, ROBERT P. SCOTT, OF CADIZ, OIIIO, AND WILLIAM II. SELLS, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK; SAID SELLS ASSIGNOR TO JOI-IN A. SELLS, OF MONTESANO, WASHINGTON.

sPncIrIcATIoNfozming part of Letters Patent Naoeaese, dated May 1, 1900. Application filed 511116 15, 1894. Serial No. 514,713. (No model.)

` 1h all whom it may concern: 1 tear off the husks and'butts from green corn 5o Beit known that we, JOHN A. CHISHOLM, a without previously butting the corn, a numsubject of the Queen of GreatABritain, resid` ber of difficulties arise, which we have over'- ing at Oakville, Ontario, Canada, andROB- come in the machine of thisapplication.

5 ERT P. SCOTT, residing at Cadiz,I-Iarrison This machine consists, generally speaking,

county,0hio, and WILLIAM H. SELLs,residing of husking devices, slitting devices, and a 55 at Buffalo, New York, citizens of the United conveyer.V The husking devices areV in the States, have invented a new and Improved form of parallel rolls, which by their friction Green-Corn-Husking Machine, set forth in the tear off the husk and butt. As the butts es- Io annexed specification. pecially are liable to clog therolls, clearing de- A number of Vmachinesffor removing the vices arenecessary. These at the same time 6o husk from dried corn have been devised and` `may constitute feeding devices for those ears a number of them are eiiicient in operation. .of corn which are lying in the bitelof the rolls, But few machines' for husking green corn so that the ears are spaced along the rolls and 15 have, however, been devised, andso far as but one ear at a time can occupy any given known tous none of them are capable of do portion of the rolls. Cleaning and scraping 65 ing their work on a practical and commercial means are added,a`nda jet of water constantly scale. The reason forthis state of facts lies` playing upon the rolls not merely keeps them in this, that whereas it is a very easy matter clean, but, as we have discovered, improves zo to husk dry corn, the brittleness of the husk, their grip upon vthe husk. The slitting dethe separation of theleaves from each other vices are circumferentially arranged around 7o and from the corn, andthe absence of all moisthe passage for the corn, and two of them reture or glutinous substances causing the ear volvo and may act to feed the corn toward to be ready to vdrop from the husk with the the huskingrolls. The conveyer is ofthe z5 slightest effort, it is, on the other hand, an ensprocket-chain type, running in a trough of tirely-different and far more diiiicult matter. peculiarcross-section,whereby we insure that 75 to husk green corn, in which the leaves are but one earat a time is fed, and an open space close together and closely embrace the ear and kicker are also provided to remove surand are glued thereto. In consequence the plus ears andinsureauniformityoffeed. The 3o husking of green corn presents a problem for shape of the conveyer in side elevation is also which the results attained in husking dry of peculiar utility,havingasubstantially-hori- 8o corn are applicable in such a small measure zontal portion at each end for receiving the that it becomes a different art. corn from the wagons and for feeding it to In our experiments ,to build a green-cornthe slitters and an intermediate inclined por- 35 husking machine which 4should be efficient tion for allowing surplus ears to fall off.

in practice and which should have a sufficient In the drawings, Figure l is a longitudinal 85 capacity tomarrant its adoption as against section. Fig. 2 is a plan. Fig. 3 is a transhand labor,which is unusually rapid, we have verse sectional detail through the huskingdevised several types of machines of which rolls. Fig. 4 is a detail of the slitters. Fig. 4o the one herein shownis the best. In our prior 5 is an end elevation of the conveyer. Figs.

eiforts itwas necessary to butt the ears before 6 and 6 are details of the gearing for drivgo subjecting them to the husking operation, ing the husking-rolls; and Fig. 7 is a detail which made it very difficult'to feed the butted of' the gearing for driving the slitters, rolls, I ears properly, so-that'the machine had but and conveyer-chain, several of the wheels 45 little capacity. In the Amachine of this applibeing broken away and the main drive-wheel cation the butting is unnecessary, although, and chain appearing in dotted lines. of course, lthe machine will also husk ears The husking devices consist of rolls A A', which have been previously butted. In orwhich have their axes parallel and are set at der, however, to` have a machine which will an incline to the horizontal and one slightly I' abovetheother.lv ,Theserolls are driven by small pinions A2 A8, meshing with each other,

and the pinions AS meshing with a gearwheel A4, to the fiat-side of which is secured a bevel-wheel A5, which meshes with a bevel-v wheel on theshaft D?. To this shaft is rigidly secured a gear D2, meshing with a gearv D'on the shaft F. The gear `D' inlturn engages a gear D on a shaft D9, to which shaft is secured a sprocket C, around which passes l a cha-in C', driven by the sprocket C2 on the driving-shaft B. Power is thus communi- .cated from the driving-shaft to the pinion A2,

l' the rolls and have a projection B4, which fits which rapidly revolves the husking-rolls.

1 lSituated above and parallel to the length of the-,huskingfrolls arel sprocket-chains B',l receiving their' motion from the shaftABby- .means of sprockets B3.

are used instead of one broad chain,as 'we thereby secure greater strength, ease ofcoustruction, and a possibility of their passingv 5 around the sprocket-wheels without buckling. f

To these sprocket-chains are rigidly secured at equal'intervals feeding and cleaning de.

vices-B2B? and the clearing devices B4. vAs will be seen from Athe sectional View', these devices lie closely adjacent to the surface of ,v in between their contacting surfaces.` These v'd'evicesB2 B4 B7 thus `effect severalvery im i pcrtant functions in the green-corn-huskingy operation'. i

, be no jostling or crowding.

It may be said that one'of the main diiii-V c'ulti'es in husking green corn, especially such as is not butted inv advance, lies in the fact y that the green husk when itis torn o the cob gets between the contacting surfaces of the rolls and forms a Wedge which therollslcanfy not force through. The hard cylindrical butts are especially liable to thus stick fbetween and clogthe rolls.' y

up-a considerable amount of extra power,

This not only uses which isoflesser consequence, but itln'akes just so muchof thesurface as is clogged u seless for furtherhusking, and, in fact, a piece of vbut a half an inch long can, bypreventing' the corn'to be huskedfrom lyinglflatonthe rolls, make so'mesev'en or eight inchesioft-he 1 rolls inoperative. The clearing, devices {B4- are .therefore-a very-important feature of ou r invention, since they positively force out such.

clogs-and butts froml between the rolls land ccntinuouslykeep them clear. We 'ascribe much of-thesucccss of-"our machineasagreen-porn hu'sker to these 'clearing devices.

` of a feed or spacer.. Itis necessary for a suc-I cess'ful green-corn-husk-ing machine that but one ear at a time shall-occupy any given parti of the husking devices-.that is to say, the earsmust be spaced apart, so that/there shall By means of def vicestobe described A later on we throwone ear at a time upon the rolls, and the feeding devices B2 act to keep the-ears which may be on the rolls quite separate. In fact, asjthe y edge'sof the feeders Bzsnugly embrace the Two sprocket-chains rolls, it may be saidv that the'sprocket-chains B", the rolls A,`sideboards P, and the feeders B2 form compartments for the corn, there being but one ear to each compartment. 4 The feeders B2thus form spacing devices. Theinclination of the rolls may be so great that the corn will slide down against a feeder B2 and be kept from 'moving off the rolls too quickly. In this case the feeders would act as negative feeders; or the inclination of the rolls maybe so slight that the feeders will force the corn down the rolls, in which case they would act as positive feeders. y,Particular attention is called to the factthat thel feeders B.2-lie'closely adjacent to and in the bite of the rolls A A', so as tofconstitute feedingl devices for the .corn whichis lying directly againstthe surface of the rolls, whereby a spacing action is possible. If the feeders weresituated at some distance above the-rolls,`soasto act on corn lwhichwas not in the bite of the lrolls, but upon anyV corn which had crowded above the corn actuallyinVt'he l,bi-te, it would 'be seen that the feeders B2` would no longer act as feeders for the corn actually underhusking operation and Wouldnot actas spacing devices. l Y i, f The devices B2 .in addition to being clearing, feeding, and spacing devices have also the function of scraping'-thejsurface of the rolls tokeep them clean by' reason of their contour fitting the contour of therolls. The

surfaces B7 thus act as cleaning devices.

Furthermore, the sprocket-chains,v B' lie' so close to therolls as toprevent anycornvfrom 'rising up vertically on. its b utt,which lit has a'strongvtendency to do.;` This proximityof thevchains B to thefrolls vis quite important in, this respect, for if the, chains. were at some distance above the rolls the corn would rise up and strike the chains', thus clogging them.

VVepreVe-nt the corn-,from rising-atv all in the first place.

We have shown theiclearing'device B4, the

feedingand. spacing deviceBz, and the cleaning device B7 as ink one piece. y'They may, :however,.b,e` madein separatepieces. f c

Y. i lInorderto still furtherinsure the cleanliness of the rolls, weflattach scraping devices vSQ alongtheir sides, as shownin'Fig. 3. Furthermore,`wehave found thata stream of watervdirected upon theIv rolls not only acts to clean them, butto givethem abetter grip on Vthenhuskof green corn. vWe therefore use La water-supply nozzle W neartheuppen end IIC IZO

`off-thefrolls; "Again, we und that the rolls should berc'overed `with nearly pure rubber and that their exact diameteris of extreme one-half to twovand three-fourths inches efficient. ,c

We` have vnow -to describe the slitting de-` vices, which are situated at the ends ofthe hu'skingrolls and act to slit thehusk ofthe corn longitudinally in a number of linesabout Vi-tscirc-umference and -rnay also actas feeding devicesfor the corn. v f

importance.' We find a diameter -of` two and A The slitting devices which we have shown consist of two horizontally-disposed springactuated arms E4, bearing slitting-knives at their ends, and two` or more vertically-disposed rotary saw-toothed slitting-disks E E'. These slitting devices are arranged-around to constitute a passage for the corn. `The upper slitting diskor disks E are carried on a shaft journaled in a swinging arm E5, so that the slitting-disk has a vertical motion and is pressed down against the corn by its weight vor by additional weights or springs, which may be arranged to act on the arm E3. Since the slitting-disk E is positively rotated, although bodily movable, peculiar devices are needed to convey a rotary motion to said disk. The device which We have chosen consists of sprocket-Wheels D6 D8 and a sprocketchain D7. from shaft D60 and sprocket D31 by means of a chain D3, which is moved by the sprocket D4 on the shaft D3, to which motion is communicated, as before described. Although we do not confine ourselves to the specific gearing shown, it possesses markedadvantages in giving a high speed of revolution to the upper slitting-disk and in permitting this disk to be set as close as possible to the ends of the husking-rolls. The lower slitting-roll E receives motion from a gear E2 on the same shaft which meshes With `a gear E3 on the shaft D3. These slitting devices are obviously of the utmost importance in the operation of our machin e. Unless the husk of the corn is slit at a number of places it would be practically impossible to remove the husk from green corn by the rolls. Especially is this true when the butts are not previously removed by a butting operation, but are pulled orf with the husk. For husking green corn these slitters may be well said to be indispensable. The types of slitters we have shown possess also peculiar advantages. The rotary slitters act more eectively than a mere stationary slitter, and the saw-teeth not only cut the husk more thoroughly and quickly, but prevent the rotary knives from sinking in too deep and injuring the corn. in the type we have shown the rotary slitters act also as feeding devices for the corn, and thus render the use of separate feed-rolls unnecessary, thus rendering the machine simpler and more compact. By having a number ofl slitters arranged around the passage for the corn we insure the slitting of the husk at a number of places around its circumference, and by mounting the slitters in a yielding manner, and especially by so mounting the rotary slitter, We secure a slitting of the husk as near to the buttas possible, since the yielding slitters will folleT the contour of the corn, and the shape of the rotary slitter adds to this eect, as the shape of the rotary slitters at their pointyof closest proximity corresponds in a measure to the shape of the buttend of the corn. y

Vc have now to describe the conveyer,

The sprocket-wheel D3 receives motion i Besides,

the function of which is to select a single ear from a mass of. ears thrown in at the feed end and to feed such single earinto the machine. In fact, as before indicated, we have found that the success of a green-corn-husking machine depends in a large measure upon handling vone ear at a time and in not allowing two ears to interfere with each other. Although a wagon-load of ears may be dumped upon the end of the conveyer, it is the business of this conveyer to see to it that one ear and only one ear at atime is passed to the slitting devices, and the other parts of the machine mustisee to it that when they have thus received asingle ear they must keep it single. The conveyer which we have shown is the result ofanumber of experiments with radically-different types and is found edicient in practice.

Generally speaking, the conveyer'is of the sprocket-chain type and comprises ya chain F4, passing around sprockets F F2 F3 and receiving motion from the sprocket F on the shaft F. The conveyer `consists of a horizontal portion H, on which the ears are dumped, a curved portion H', connecting with a steeply-inclined part H2, which is in turn connected by `a curved portion H3 with a horizontal part H4. The corn may thus be received from the Wagons on the horizontal portion H, and by means of the intervening curved and inclined portions be delivered at a greater height in a horizontal position to the slitters by means of the upper horizontal part H4. i

The shape of the conveyer-trough in crosssection is shown in Fig. 5, and it will be seen to consist of a U-shaped bed, with V-shaped Haring sides connected thereto, the diameter of the U-shaped bed being atriiie larger than the diameter of the corn to be husked. In

practicea number of our machines will be which is perfectly fiat and has no sides, after which the U-bed begins again at U2.

The sprocket chain F4 passes along the bottom of the conveyer-trough and has attached thereto at intervals corresponding to the intervals between the spacers and feeders B2 a series of U-shaped attachments F5 for grasping the butts of the corn to be husked. If we suppose now thata number of ears are dumped on the horizontal portion H of the conveyer, the V shaped sides will guide such ears as are lying substantially length- Wise of the trough into the U-shaped bed; but any ears which lie partially or entirely crosswise will be held up above the U -bed and will not obstruct the passage of the attachments F5, Which,.as shown, Will grasp the buttV IIO zo y befed throughfthe slitters EE and 'Onto vthe. husking-rolls at the moment-when affeeder tered by the U--bed and the attachment F;

y v butshould theear .not be properly caught or `centered or should therel be two ears between a single pair ofv attachments F5 the `earl which is not held by anat'tachment will on passing t the inclined 'portion 'H2 v,with unobstructedsides fall out of the path of the sprocket-chain downonto the Vwedge V andthence .back tov I theV- shaped trough; 'lhisyisan extremely-1 important feature ofthe conveyer. As bet fore stated, va `regularity of feed,` ear byear and but one ear ata time, is of theessence of a y successful green-corn-husking machine. -As

Y so that -two ears may not be fed between al" jit frequently happens that two short ears will lodge between a single pair of attachments F5,

it is necessary to'removetheA upper ear, firstg'.

I single pairo'f feeding devices B2 on the husk#v ving-rolls, 'where they might crowd '.andclog,`

and, second, sothat the upperearwouldfnot B2 is coming 4around' the upper sprocketB',

Tas otherwise-this feeder would jam thec'orn into lthe husking-rolls and clog and breaklthe vIt is to be understood thatthe'attachments F5 and the feeders B2 are sotimed that an* ear Y which hasl its butt caught" by an attachment will `be fed through the slitter a few moments before the corresponding feeder' B2 comes around'the upper sprocket B5, sothat the'ear and. feeder B2'Will notv jam and so ythatajlso the ear may be thrown out onto the huskingrolls by the' slitters and be gripped .bythese .rolls while the ear is yet stationary thereon and before the feeders contact with -it and force itv along, lwhich we find gives a betterl i chance .for a good grip. If nowthere are two* ears lying between a single pair of attach-f"l ments F5, it is `evident thatsince the parts` is caught 'by the attachments, they are not are timed to properly feed thelower ear, which timed to feed the uppereanwhichwould clog and perhaps break the machine unless re` moved. The inclined portionvH2,withlunob structed sides, effects thisremoval, asbefore indicated. It thus appears that'the shape of the conveyer, with twohorizontal portions H H4 at different heights and the connecting inclined portion H2, is not merely a convenient means for feeding the corn at the proper anlgle from a lower to a higher level, but also has the essential mechanical function of supplying a necessary inclined clearing-space for superfluous (and thereby dangerous) ears; but

- we do not rely on this inclined portion H2 alone to clear out superfluousears. It may happen that the superfluous ear is by accident socentered and caught onto the lowerear as not Vto fall out by gravity when reaching the incline H2 or that an ear may be caught upside down in-anattachment F5 .with its buttfheld in the 'attachment and the body of the ear on the lower side. Such ears .must be forcibly y remoyed, and we do this by a kicker G, piv-V otedvat about `the 4middle of the inclined por,-

tion andl actuated bya lever GrQA'pi-voted positively insures that there shall beaclear space behind each: attachment F5, so that a clogging'atftheupperend of the rolls is im'-` possible. -By using the sprocketF2 for actuf atingthe kicker we dispensewithvan eXtra element. Itis necessary, however, to make the circumference of thissprocket equal to tl'1el distance between the attachments F5.

' It is unnecessary tol describe at length the operation in'detail, ysince this-'willlbe evident from the above description.v The unbutted ears arejdumped in at' H, are centered, and carried to the free space at H2, lwhere super-4 fluous-ears are removed,'after which the ears pass onto the portion H4, and thence to: the slitters,' where they'are Athrown onto the husk- `ing-rolls.` Here'r the husks, and possibly the butts, faretorn ed by thegripping action of vthe rolls, which are kept clear and `clean by .the means described; 'The husked ears Vare 'rejectedvatfthe lower ends of the rolls. Y We desire to call especial .attention to the f (compactness 'of the lmachinein a transverse direction; As' it is necessary to handle singleears inhusking green `corn we attain a -large'capacityby placing a'number of machines sideby'side. vThis renders it possible Ito'buil'd machines .whichshall' all be of the same size, and then theuser can place as many together as he needsforhis purpose. Again, attention is ealledto the compactness ofthe gearing at the upper ends of the huskling-rolls and to the means of'conveying motion to the rolls by small gears, so as not to obstruct the passage for the corn. f

'IWVe do not go at length into a description of the-modifications which we consider fall within our invention.l At bestwe could describe but a few of these, and such description might be taken to exclude as ofl our inve'ntion the modifications not described.v We Ashall therefore rely on the terms of our claims to cover'such modifications as invention. 'Whatwe claim is-f y i 1. A green-corn-husking machine comprising the combination of parallel husk-ing-rolls,

clearing devices projecting into the bite of the scribed.

3. A green-corn-husking machine compris- Aingthe combination vof .parallel basking-rolls, clearing .devices projecting into .the bit'e of the rolls, a pair of sprocket-chains parallel to. the

fall Within our .at (i2 andk actuated at the 'properttime'by a projection G3 on the sprocket`F2. This kicker IOO IIO

axes of the rolls to each of which the clearing devices are secured, said chains preventing the corn from rising on the rolls, substantially as described.

4. A green-corn-husking machine comprising the combinationlof a pair of parallel husking-rolls, feeding devices immediately adjacent to the surface of the rolls and arranged to act on the ears lying in the bite of the rolls, and an endless carrier. above and parallel to the axes of the roll on Which the feeding devices are mounted and which acts to prevent the corn from rising up on the rolls, substantially as described. p

5. A green-corn-huskin g machine com prising the combination of parallel husking-rolls, side-boards, a sprocket-chain above and parallel with the rolls carrying feeding devices, said feeding devices lying im mediately ad jacent to the surface of the rolls with no third part between them, and the sideboards, sprocket chains, feeding devices and rolls forming the Walls of compartments for the corn holding it from displacement in anydirection, substantially as described.

(i. A green-corn-husking machine comprising the combination of husking devices and power-driven feeding-slitters at the feed end of the husking devices whereby the corn is both slit and fed onto the huskers at one operation.

7. A green-co'rn-husking machine comprising the combination of parallel husking-rolls and yieldingly-mounted, power-driven, rotary feeding, slitting-disks at the feed end of the rolls, substantially as described.

S. A green-corn-husking machine comprising the combination of parallel husking-rolls with means for feeding the corn parallel to their axes, a power-driven rotary slittingdisk or disks and gearing for revolving the disks more rapidly than speed of the feeding means along the rolls, whereby the ears are shot onto the rolls and the space between the slitters and rolls is bridged, as described.

9. A green-corn-husking machine comprising the combination of husking devices and a vpower-driven saw-toothed feeding-slitter at the feed end of the huskers which acts to both feed and slit the corn, substantially as described.

10. A green-corn-husking machine comprising the combination of parallel huskingrolls with means for feeding the corn parallel to their axes, and yieldingly-mounted powerdriven saw-toothed disks at the feed end of the rolls which act to both feed and slit the corn as described.

11. A green-corn-husking machine comprising the combination of husking devices and a conveyer having V-shaped sides comprising a lower substantially-horizontal portion for receiving, selecting and alining the mass of ears, an upper portion on a plane with' the husker for feeding the selected ears, an intermediate portion for discharging superiiuous ears, and a carrier movable along the several portions, substantially as described.-

12. A green-corn-husking machine comprising the combination of husking devices and a conveyer comprising a lower substantiallyhorizontal portion for receiving the mass of ears an upper portion on a plane with the husker for feeding the ears and an intermediate inclined, open-sided portion for permitting superfluous ears to fall back substantially as described.

13. A green-corn-husking machine comprising the combination of husking devices and a conveyer comprising an inclined portion andan automatically and periodically actuated kicker for removing su peruous ears substantially as described.

14. A green-corn-husking machine comprising the combination of husking devices and a conveyer having a bed and an endless carrier in the bed, said conveyer comprising a horizontal portion for receiving the mass of ears, an upwardly-extending inclined portion for discharging superfluous ears and an upper portion substantially in a plane with the huskers for feeding the selected ears to the husking devices substantially as described.

15. A green-corn-husking machine comprising the combination of husking devices and a conveyer having in section a U-shaped bed and Haring V-shaped sides, the conveyer comprising a lower substantially-horizontal portion, upwardly-extendinginclined portion and an uppersubstantially-horizontal portion substantially as described.

16. A' green -cornhusking machine comprising the combination of husking devices, a conveyer having in section flaring V-shaped sides and an endlesscarrier having carrying attachments fitting the end of the ear,"the conveyer having horizontal portions and an intermediate portion comprising a clear space for the removal of superfluous ears substantially as described'.

` 17. A green-corn-husking machine comprisin g the combination of husking devices, feeding devices for the corn on the husking devices, a conveyer for the corn and a kicker for ejecting superfluous ears timed to Work in unison with the feeding devices substantially as described.

18. A greencorn-husking machine comprising the combination of parallel huskingrolls, feeding devices for feeding the corn therealong parallel to their axes, a separate conveyer provided with attachments and mechanism for operating the feed devices and conveyer attachments in cooperative unison substantially as described.

19. A green-corn-husking machine comprising the combination of parallel husking'- rolls, a sprocket-chain carrying feeders moving along the rolls, a separate conveyer provided With attachments and mechanism for operating the feeders and attachments in cooperative unison substantially as described.

20. A green-corn-husking machine com- IOO IIO

prising thecombination'of parallel hnskingrolls, a sprocket-chain carrying feeders movl ing alongthelength of the rolls,-a separate vIC) sprocket chain lconveyer carrying attachments and mechanism for operating the feeders and attachments in coperative unison.`

21. `A green-corn-husking machinecomprising the combination of parallel huskingrolls, feeding devices for feeding the corn therealong parallel to their axes, la powerdriven slitting and feeding device for 'both slitting the corn and feeding it to the rolls anda separate conveyerprovided with attachments for feeding the corn to thevslitte'rs just before av feeder on the lrolls is ready to come into action.

22. A green-corn-husking machinev lcolnprising parallel husking-rolls, one above the other, a vcleaning device projecting into the bite of the rolls and mounted to move parallel to their axcs,"snbstantially as described. v

helm and William H. Sells: BRUCE WINNER,

. M.. A. GEARON.'

p `Witnesses as Scott FRANK BAYLEss,

E. S. WoonBoRNE.

to signature of Robert P.

y 23. In a green-corn-husking machine, the 

